Chinese food cooked by Mexican, is it still authentic Chinese food?

The food doesn't care who is cooking it and neither should you. Your logic is waaaaaay off. I have had great Chinese food cooked by Mexicans in the US in Sweden by Swedes as well as by Chinese chefs. The ethnicity of the food is determined by the ingredients, cooking methods, and skill of the chef, not their nationality. Taco Bell is Tex Mex, marketed to the average American who has never traveled or experienced Central or South American food nor cook this cuisine at home.

It all has to do with the Ingredients and not with who is cooking the food. I can cook really good chinese food and I'm caribbean

Gee, I don't quite know how to answer that. We live in Mexico City. We get our take out "carnitas" from a little place up the street - best I've even had. Owner is Chinese (Chinese-Mexican) in fact he's a cousin of the Governor of Hidalgo state, Miguel Ángel Osorio CHONG! I've never even thought about it before..... (I guess we Mexicans just don't continually obsess about "race" like you Gringos do........)

It's all in the head, but very true. I walked into a Mexican restaurant once and seen a bunch of white folks (whiter than my very white self!) doing the serving. I told my husband that I was disappointed because they wouldn't be the real thing. Would you know they were indeed Hispanics from Mexico!?! They couldn't even speak English! They were just white. Oh, yeah, and the food was SUPER! I hear that our Chinese food is not authentic in America, also, but most of us haven't been there to try it. They say we probably wouldn't eat the real stuff... and they are probably right! Mexico, on the other hand, is closer, many of us have been there, and the food is closer so it comes in still authentic. Taco Bell is good, authentic or not, but it is a food in it's own class. If you are from a non-hispanic area, it is more Mexican than McDonald's, but say, in Texas, it is probably considered to be very Americanized.

this is a matter of perception you are talking about here. people's mentality is that authentic food must be cooked by someone who grew up in that culture and he must be well-trained in the culture to cook authentic food. so even though both foods taste the same exactly, we can be mislead to think that the chinese food cooked by mexicans is not authentic enough, especially if you never tried chinese food before. Authentic Chinese food has to be prepared with knowledge of the culture and the Chinese's preference of taste. For example, Teochew food tends to be more bland and Sichuan food tends to be spicy. There are different tastes for different groups, so authentic chinese food is really very subjective. however, it is of course best for someone chinese to cook chinese food as they would have grown up eating the food and they would be able to understand how the chinese food should taste like, how it should look like, smell like and how it should be prepared. if a mexican is able to fulfill the exact requirements of cooking the food of another culture, it would be really impressive and over time, people would realise that the chinese food cooked by the mexican is actually just as good as the food cooked by the chinese, and they would appreciate his efforts in cooking food from another culture. it would be difficult usually for someone to be able to cook food from another culture well, but it is still possible for the chinese food cooked by the mexican to be authentic. as for taco bell, it may be because it is a fast-food restaurant, and not many people knows of its food as mexican food. through globalisation and westernization, taco bell is treated as yet another fast-food, and not as a representation of authentic culture. also, the food would be changed to suit the consumer's tastes and the culture in different countries, hence, the food may not be authentic mexican food in the end. i hope this answers your question ^^

Yes of course I'm Irish I cook fried rice according to an Oriental cookbook that does not change it to Irish rice... Nonsense

Did those receipes come from Mexico? I don't think so. I'm a Mexican and I've never wrapped my tosada with a flour tortilla before! Taco Bell food was created by some Californicator who had the munchies!

It doesn't matter WHO cooks it...it matters HOW it's cooked.

LMAO! As for taco bell, that is revamped mexican food by white people. NO mexican cooks like that. As for the chinese food, it is just as authentic if it is the same recipe. I do not see the difference, I see how it tastes. Taco bell is white people in a white cooperation with their idea of what is mexican food tastes like. It is funny to see that real mexicans eat there. Same with chinese food, if you see chinese people eat at the place then you should eat it :-D LMAO!